Speakers
Kevin Hamm
Friday Night Speaker
Dr. Kevin Hamm has been the Senior Pastor of Gardendale First Baptist Church in Gardendale, Alabama since April 2006. GFBC is committed to passionate worship and anointed preaching of God's Holy Word. The church is consumed with taking the Good News of Jesus across the street and around the world and is consistently among the state leaders in baptisms.
Pastor Kevin often says, "God blesses a church that will worship Him in spirit and truth. Celebrative, passionate worship combined with Biblical, anointed preaching is a match made in Heaven!" He previously served nine years as the Senior Pastor of Valley View Church in Louisville, Kentucky which grew dramatically under his leadership.
Pastor Kevin has the unique ability to hold an audience's attention by communicating God's Word with tremendous clarity and enthusiastic passion. His preaching schedule includes Evangelism Conferences in Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi. Pastor Kevin has served on the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention and as President of the Alabama Baptist Pastor's Conference. His articles have been published in Growing Churches, Leadership and Leader Life.
He has his B.A. from Western Kentucky University, M. Div. from MidAmerica Theological Seminary and Doctor of Ministry degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He married his wife, Kim, in 1987 and they have three daughters: Lindsey, Lauren and Kayla.
Jarman
leatherwood
Morning SEssion Speaker & Saturday night speaker
Jarman Leatherwood is the Pastor of House of Hope and Restoration Church. He hails from York, Alabama. He is married to the lovely Camillus Leatherwood. They are blessed with three amazing children.
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Pastor Leatherwood is a graduate of Luther Rice Seminary. He also holds a degree in Computer Information Systems and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Divinity at the prestigious New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Pastor Leatherwood is the Congregational Wellness Strategist/Catalyst for the Etowah Baptist Association. He works as a Catalyst and Coach for the State Board of Missions (SBOM). There he assists in church planting, revitalization, and partnerships with African American churches. In addition, he is a member of the Assessment Team for Church planting within the SBOM and serves on the ‘Committee on Committees’ of the Southern Baptist Convention on the national level.
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Pastor Leatherwood is the President of the Pastor’s Conference for the Madison Baptist Association (MBA). He also serves as the Vice-Moderator for the MBA.
Pastor Leatherwood is an instructor for Samford University Ministry Training Institute.
Ken Adams
Sunday Night Speaker
Ken Adams grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia and graduated from Southwestern Theological Seminary in May 1989 with a Master of Divinity. Ken was called as the first pastor of Crossroads Church, Newnan in June 1989. Ken has a passion for being a disciple of Christ, and pouring his life into others who have a desire to walk as Jesus walked. As a result of that passion, spiritual growth became the number one goal for Crossroads. Crossroad’s objective for reaching that goal is the “Disciple Making Church Strategy”, which revolves around making and multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ.
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FOUNDING IMPACT MINISTRIES: After searching the market and not finding adequate resources on disciple making to help achieve the spiritual growth goals of Crossroads, Ken began writing his own curriculum. Crossroads began to use his resources in its small groups in the early 1990’s. His curriculum was so successful in achieving Crossroad’s goals, Ken decided to make his resources available to other churches. Impact Discipleship Ministries, Inc. was founded in 2002.
Since that time, churches across the U.S. and across the globe are actively using Impact’s resources. Ken continues to lead training seminars on the Disciple Making Church strategy and continues to develop new resources to help churches and individuals develop fully trained disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Ken and his wife, Val, live in Sharpsburg, Georgia.
Lance Sumner
Breakout Session LEader
Lance has been a pastor and in ministry for over twenty years and came on staff with Crossroads Church and Impact Discipleship Ministries in 2022. Lance has served churches in a multitude of capacities from deacon, youth pastor, associate pastor, and for nine plus years as senior pastor of one church. With this extensive experience, Lance has desire to see the church be and become the church by making disciples through church revitalization.
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Lance firmly believes in walking with and beside other pastors to help guide the church in and back to its mission of making disciples. Lance’s passion is being a disciple of Christ who disciples others. Lance realizes one of the loneliest positions is being a pastor and wants to come alongside pastors who have a desire to make disciples to build them up. Lance’s life verses are Romans 12:1-2, and his deepest desire is to see the Church transformed for God by equipping local churches to accomplish and fulfill their mission.
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Lance is a graduate of Luther Rice Seminary with an MA in Leadership and MDiv. Lance and his wife, Karen, have two young children, Jonathan and Harper Grace, and currently live in Senoia, GA. Previously, before going into ministry, Lance served honorably in the United States Army as a Biological Research Specialist.
Val Adams
Breakout Session LEader
Val Adams graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the University of West Georgia and a Masters degree from Belhaven University. She currently works as an English teacher and administrator at Trinity Christian School in Sharpsburg, Georgia.
Additionally, Val regularly teaches and writes Women’s Bible studies at Crossroads Church and has led numerous discipleship groups for the past 40 years. She has been married to Ken Adams for the past 37 years and is so thankful and blessed to serve alongside him at Crossroads Church for the past 32 years!